Tera Logic Texture Maker
Top Pick Description: Texture Maker has a full range of tools for creating special effects, controlling colors, adding waves, and drawing. There are pre-defined scripts for creating effects such as fractal lines, bubbles, cheese, random lines, plasma, spheres, water effects and waved blurs. Textures can be saved in BMP or JPEG format. When textures are loaded into a browser as a background image, or onto your desktop as wallpaper, the edges tile seamlessly.
	Copyright 1998 Next Step Publishing

Reptile 1.4
Description: You can easily adjust the shapes, colors, gradients, intensities and degree of randomness to create any combination of wavy, bubbly, organic, big, small, wide, narrow, rough or smooth textures. There are dozens of cool presets to play with, including such "classics" as lunar eclipse, dancing blobs, embedded chains, furry beastie, squid school, crinkled foil, and digestive system. There is even an area where you can preview different fonts and colors against your generated background. Images can be saved in different sizes in either GIF or JPEG format, perfect for use as tiled background images for the Web, or as desktop wallpaper.
	Copyright 1998 Next Step Publishing

Butttonz and Tilez
Description: With the Buttonz! utility, you can create any size button and customize your work with a variety of options and special effects. These include: colors, lumination, bevel width, bevel opacity, relative offset, lighting, styles, fills, captions, shapes and palettes. With the Tilez! utility, you can create an endless variety of seamlessly tiled background images that can be used on the Web or as desktop wallpaper. You can choose from a variety of algorithms, ranging from simple plasma to horizontal waves. Dozens of options and special effects are available, including: brightness, cycle, amplitude, turbulence, twist, texture, layer and emboss. With both programs
	Copyright 1998 Next Step Publishing